Three Words Count in Bonds: Liquidity, Liquidity, Liquidity

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There are three things that matter in the bond market these days: liquidity, liquidity and liquidity.

How -- or whether -- investors can trade without having prices move against them has become a major worry as bonds globally tanked in the past few months. As a result, liquidity, or the lack of it, is skewing markets in new and surprising ways.